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  • 2010-11-10 Connection management using X.509 certificates from CAcert.org. Still very primitive on our side.
  • 2010-11-10 Edit profile to enter position (member or assurer), number of points, granting points and availability.
  • 2010-11-10 Allow users to delete their own account.
  • 2010-11-11 CAcert connection is disabled until we find a way to associate accounts with more privacy, i.e. ask users whether they accept and generate unique usernames automatically. The way to go is as follows: users create an account on GOOZE, then they bind their account to an anonymous CAcert.org account ID. This way, privacy is preserved. This is a lot of work in programming and we preferred to drop connection during one day or more.
  • 2010-11-11 Added an OpenID server on GOOZE which checks CAcert.org certificates and returns a unique OpenID. OpenID services are provided by several CAs, like for example StarSSL. Now the CAcert.org community can use GOOZE OpenID server and preserve its anonimity. This is a great example showing how much CAcert.org is offering great services. Full documentation will soon be available.
  • 2010-11-11 Added a Facebook connector, which allows existing Facebook users to connect to GOOZE and create an account. Such users have no privilege and cannot access sensitive information, i.e. user account usernames, community forums, etc ... The idea is to convince them to register CAcert.org AND use OpenID to connect to other websites, preserving they privacy. We will monitor this project during two months from now. If the number of users connecting from Facebook remains low, we will remove this connector.
  • 2010-11-11 Removed the number of points of CAcert.org users, as this is a personal information.
  • 2010-11-11 Remove Facebook connector, which only survived a few hours on GOOZE. The reason was that the Facebook code would stream sessions continutiously to Facebook, even anonymous sessions. There were serious flaws in the code and we disabled Facebook completely until the dust settles down.
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